Reference no: EM133463144

Case study: Ms. Sonja Pines, an 83-year-old who suffers from liver cancer and kidney failure, is no longer able to communicate medical decisions. Her 6o-year-old daughter, Sarah. is recognized as her proxy. The health-care team believes that CPR is inappropriate for Ms. Pines and that kidney dialysis should be discontinued. In a few days, or perhaps a few weeks, she will almost certainly die. She is quite frail, so CPR would probably produce significant damage and is unlikely to be successful. If she survived CPR she would probably be brain damaged. A resident, Dr. Alice Patik, has talked with Sarah, who adamantly insists that "everything" be done for her mother. Sarahis other family members live mostly out of town and rarely visit. They have been contacted by phone by and all agree, Sarah says. The resident calls for an ethics consul-tation, but before there is a response, Ms. Pines codes and cPR is performed. The procedure causes two broken ribs; although Ms. Pines is not able to communicate, it appears that she suffered as a result of the CPR. She is placed on a ventilator. Dr. Patik thinks that the results of the CPR confirm the view of the health-care team about the harmfulness of the procedure. With good reason, Sarah believes that her mother would have died without resuscitation. To her, this confirms her view about the importance of CPR. A bioethicist begins investigating and calls for a meeting between the health-care team and Sarah. All parties continue to maintain their respective positions, sometimes in a fairly heated way. The bioethicist decides to call a meeting of the hospital ethics committee, but Ms. Pines dies three days after the CPR and a day before the ethics committee is scheduled to meet.

1. Explain a theory (could be consequeutialism, Dentology, virtue ethics, ethics of care, principlism, utilitarianism ) and why it is the appropriate one to apply to the case with supporting reasoning.

2. Discuss one scenario that could've happened, or did actually happened that was unethical.

3. Discuss one counter argument that could be used against the theory that is chosen, and defend your position. Pick an asian ethical theory ( can be Humaneness (Ren), Gentlemen (Junzi), or Daoism). For example: "Some could argue that ____ theory would be more appropriate to this situation because of (this and that), but I argue that asian ethical theory of ____ is more appropriate because of (this and that)..."

4. Summarize main arguments and conclude with conviction and with a note of sympathy if appropriate.